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“Automotive Industry Thought Leadership: Dr. Bing Xu with iPoint”
Supply Chain Now Episode 330

This episode of Supply Chain Now features Dr. Bing Xu. Dr. Xu graduated from the University of Southern California (PhD, 1987) in Physics. He worked at Brown University and Case Western Reserve University and then joined Ford in 1993, worked in strategic and technology planning, and materials management areas. He spearheaded the Ford Global Materials Management (GMM) program in early 1997 and was one of the original OEM members developed the then VDA/EDS system in 1998 which later became the International Material Data System and successfully launched in 2000. He led cross-functional teams and developed Ford’s Global Material Approval Process which replaced ~60 local manual processes and tools and modernized 20-year-old Ford Material and Toxicology System. At the same time, he developed the Ford Global Material Integration and Reporting system and earned US Patent (No. 7,167,836). They were all under the GMM program umbrella for which Dr. Bing Xu was the program manager until he retired from Ford 2019 May. He was the Ford’s Corporate Global Attribute Leader for Materials and Substances of Concerns, and the owner of Ford’s Restricted Substances and Management Standard (RSMS) and GMM processes/tools. He also led Ford’s team to develop long term strategies to anticipate and embrace the upcoming challenges OEMs would be facing in terms of utilizing material compliance tools to reduce costly non-compliance risks in early design phases and allow alternative selections of greener materials. He served as chair/co-chair for US Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) IMDS/REACH Advisory Group and Chemical Management/Reporting Advisory Group, and USCAR Vehicle Recyclability Program and Substance of Concerns committees. He served as a Steering Committee member representing Automotive Industry conducting alternative assessments for several substances led by US EPA. He also served as the chair of the Global Automotive Declarable Substance List (GADSL) Steering Group and a member of Automotive REACH Task Force and European ACEA work groups. He joined iPoint June 2019 as director of Business Innovation and Market Engagement.

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